...A day after throwing 147 pitches, Yu Darvish told reporters on Sunday that he was feeling alright. In order to offset the workload on his right right-side, Darvish spent some time playing catch with his left.

...Sho Nakata followed his 1-for-2 with 2 RBI on Saturday and an 0-for-3 with 2 SO on Sunday. He wasn't in the starting lineup on Monday.

...Before giving up a go-ahead home run to Nobuhiro Matsuda in the top of the 11th on Sunday, Hisashi Takedahad not given up a home run to the Softbank Hawks since Hitoshi Tamura hit one out on 5/20/2007 (a total 23 games and 116 batters faced).